Wall cover assemblies

ABSTRACT

By this invention, a wall cover assembly is provided for finishing off and enclosing an old building wall structure, framework, bridgework or any other construction where a full closed wall is needed. This wall assembly is formed to accommodate for expanison and contraction of the wall itself on a change of temperature and to permit the working under expansion and contraction of the wall assembly and relative to the structure upon which the assembly is mounted. The assembly of the wall cover pieces is made upon the wall or framework by means of vertically extending supports readily and easily secured to the already established wall structure or framework and to these vertical supports, the wall assembly is attached either through pendulum-like attaching members or by transversely extending enlargements formed in the upper ends of vertical mounting slots. Headed mounting bolts are provided upon the vertical supports and the wall parts are assembled by their slots over these headed bolts and rolled resilient joints between the cover pieces are covered by vertically-extending rolled joint cover strips secured by their inturned flanges to the same bolts.

United States Patent Goggins [15] 3,681,885 [451 Aug. 8, 1972 [54] WALLCOVER ASSEMBLIES [72] Inventor: Franklin Goggins, PO. Box 35 FleetwoodStation, Mount Vernon, NY. 10552 22 Filed: June 22, 1970 211 Appl. No.:48,024

[52] US. Cl. ..52/288, 52/462, 52/469, 52/478, 52/506, 52/573 [51] Int.Cl. ..E04b 2/88 [58] Field of Search ..52/573, 463, 460, 461, 471,52/470, 469, 508, 484, 489, 487, 288, 284,

Primary Examiner-John E. Murtagh Attomey-Polachek, Saulsbury & Hough[57] ABSTRACT By this invention, a wall cover assembly is provided forfinishing off and enclosing an old building wall structure, framework,bridgework or any other construction where a full closed wall is needed.This wall assembly is formed to accommodate for expanison andcontraction of the wall itself on a change of temperature and to permitthe working under expansion and contraction of the wall assembly andrelative to the structure upon which the assembly is mounted. Theassembly of the wall cover pieces is made upon the wall or framework bymeans of vertically extending supports readily and easily secured to thealready established wall structure or framework and to these verticalsupports, the wall assembly is attached either through pendulum-likeattaching members or by transversely extending enlargements formed inthe upper ends of vertical mounting slots. Headed mounting bolts areprovided upon the vertical supports and the wall parts are assembled bytheir slots over these headed bolts and rolled resilient joints betweenthe cover pieces are covered by vertically-extending rolled joint coverstrips secured by their intumed flanges to the same bolts.

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INVENTOR. FRAN KLIN GOGGINS WALL COVER ASSEMBLIES This invention relatesto a wall cover assembly It is a principal object of the presentinvention to provide a wall cover assembly which can be readilyassembled upon a building wall or frame structure by first securing to awall or frame structure, vertical support plates having devices for theeasy assembly of cover sheet pieces or panels thereupon and of jointcover members for closing the joints between the wall pieces and whereinthe wall cover pieces and the joint cover members will be secured to thevertical supports upon common mounting bolts or devices disposedthereupon.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a wall panel orcover assembly that can be attached to an already constructed wallwithout need of ordinary loose fastening elements and wherein thefastening is effected by already prepared parts ready to be fastened tothe wall surface and to each other.

It is another object of the invention to provide a wall cover assemblywhich is adapted to permit free expansion and contraction of the coversheet parts relative to each other and the entire assembly relative tothe wall surface and the vertical mounting plates or supports used forthe securement of the assembly to the wall.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a wall cover assembly,having the above objects in mind, which is of simple construction, easyto assemble, has long life, durable, waterproof, pleasing in appearance,produced at little expense, efficient in operation and effective in use.

For a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to thefollowing detailed descrip tion taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a brick wall being coveredwith the wall cover assembly embodying the features of the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken through the two wall coverpieces at their rolled end joint and of the vertical joint cover memberas viewed on line 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view as viewed online 33 of FIG. 2 and looking upon the pendulum-like support attachingmembers of the assembly.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view taken throughthe pendulum as viewed on line 4 4 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary and perspective exploded view of the wallassembly parts separated from one another, and from the vertical wallsupport plates and illustrating the manner in which the parts areassembled upon each other and upon the wall.

FIG. 6 is a fragmentary and transverse sectional view taken of the partsas they are assembled and join one another at the comer of the wallstructure and of the enlarged joint covering member.

FIG. 7 is a fragmentary perspective and exploded view of the wall coverassembly according to 'a modified form of the invention in which thecover pieces have transversely extending enlargement to accommodate thecontraction and expansion of the wall covering pieces relative to eachother and to the vertical supports. 7

FIG. 8 is a fragmentary perspective view of the vertical joint covermembers and broken away to show the overlapped shouldered joint of twoof these members.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the joint covermembers as viewed on line 9-9 of FIG. 8.

FIG. 10 is a fragmentary perspective view of the wall assembly of FIG.7, with the parts being broken away to show the parts as they areassembled under the joint cover members.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the vertical supports mounted upon awall surface and illustrating how the measuring sticks are used to spacethe supports while they are being secured to the wall surface.

Referring now to the form of the inventionshown in FIGS. 1 to 6, 15represents a wall surface or any other structure upon which the presentwall cover assembly is to be made. The parts'of this wall assembly aremade of material which is durable, of long-life and non-corrosive, suchas metal or plastic, or a combination of an epoxy and metal, withtheepoxy joined to the metal by extending through apertures of the metalsheet so that coatings lie on opposite sides faces of the metal. Thecover pieces are made of different gauge thickness, having resiliencyand the vertical joints between pieces are made by curled or rolled endsof the pieces abutting each other. The cover pieces are attached to thewall through vertical supports or plates 16 fixed to the wall surface 15by anchor bolts 17 while held apartby two or three measuring sticksvertically-spaced and secured to the plate 16 and parallel to each otherso that the plates 16 will accommodate the cover sheet pieces to beattached to the supports. When the vertical plates 16 are attached, themeasuring sticks 18 placed on supporting plates 16 will have aligned thevertical plates to receive wall cover sheet pieces 19 in layers, asshown in FIG. 1, and fastened to the vertical supports plates in twodifferent manners to be described and in which allowance is made for theexpansion and contraction of the pieces 19.

It shall be understood that the vertical plates 19 may run any verticalheight and that they can be spaced horizontally from one another anydesired distance depending upon the sizes of the wall cover pieces 19 tobe used.

The vertical attaching plates or supports 16 are provided with headedstud bolts 21 projecting outwardly beyond the heads of the platesecuring bolts 17 that are arranged in pairs, with one stud bolt at eachside of the metal support plate in vertical alignment with the platesecuring bolts 17. These stud bolts 21 are spaced from one another uponthe metal plates 16 depending upon the height of wall cover sheet pieces19. In order to permit shifting of the wall assembly due to expansionand contraction of the assembled sheets relative to the verticalsupports 16 and the wall 15, pendulum-like members 22 having slots 23 attheir upper ends are placed over the headed studs 21 to depend therefromfor free lateral swinging movement and upon the lower ends of thesemembers 22 are further headed stud bolts 24 extending outwardlytherefrom to support the wall cover pieces 19. These stud bolts 24 aresufficiently long to accommodate three thicknesses of the sheet materialas can be seen in FIGS. 2 and 5. Each wall sheet piece 19 is provided atits bottom edge with upwardly extending slots 26 that are extended overstud bolts 24 on the pendulum member and extend between verticalsupports 16 so that the cover pieces will be assembled upon the verticalsupports 16. Outwardly beyond the slots 26, the lateral ends of thecover pieces 19 are rolled outwardly to provide resiliently tight jointbetween the ends of the cover sheets 19. These rolled or curved ends areprovided as indicated at 27 and 28, the curved end 27 being at the rightend of the cover sheet piece 19 and the curved end 28 being at the leftof the cover sheet 19 and adjacent to the respective slots 26.

The upper edge of cover piece 19 is depressed or offset as indicated at29 in order to provide a ridge or shoulder 31 upon which lower edge 32of the upper layer cover sheet piece 19 will rest. The offset portion 29of the wall piece 19 has keyhole slots 33 at the opposite ends thereofby which the pieces 19 are assembled upon the pendulum studs 24.

The rolled ends 27 and 28 of the cover sheet piece adjacent the top ofthe piece, for the height of the inwardly offset portion 29, will beenlarged as indicated at 27' and 28 to receive the rolled lower ends ofthe upper layer'of the sheet pieces 19. A tight fit of the rolled endsof the pieces 19 is thus obtained as the pieces 19 are overlapped withone another and joined over the stud bolts 24.

The joined rolled or curved end joints of the wall pieces 19 are coveredby rolled joint cover members 36 that have intumed opposing flanges 37and 38 respectively, having keyhole slots 39 and 40 for receiving thependulum bolts 24 to finally assemble the parts on the verticalsupports. The length of these stud bolts 24 are such that under theheads thereof are tightly secured the three thicknesses of the assembledthree parts, in common thereon. The rolled joint cover member 36 is madetight by aligning the slots 39 and 40 over the head pendulum bolts 24after a complete assemblage of upper and lower layers of wall sheetpieces 19, and forcibly sliding downwardly the cover members, so thatthe bolts 24 will lie in the narrow portions of the keyhole slots 39 and40. The joint cover pieces 36 can be of any length and inwardly offsetfor joining together in a flush type manner but with their endsoverlapping one another and joined in common to the bolts 24 and overthe overlapped wall piece 19 that will have been similarly joinedtogether and with the stud bolts 24.

While there has been described the assembly of the wall sheet pieces attheir ends to one wall surface of the building, it should'be apparentthat the wall pieces 19 can be joined at the comers of the building andthe wall assembly extended at an angle to the first assembly around thecomer of the building as best seen in FIG. 6. A vertical corner plate orsupport 42 is provided for this purpose which will be mounted withvertical plate 16 upon the walls by the use of the measuring sticks 18in the manner above mentioned. These corner supports 42 will similarlyhave pendulum members 22 and the pendulum studs 24 to which the wallcover pieces 19 will be assembled by means of their slots 26 and 33 ex-.cept at an angle to one another rather than in the same plane and inwhich the curved ends will be similarly interlocked to layers and lie intight abutting relationship with one another, and without having alteredthe shape of the end wall sheet pieces 19. A more fully rolled comerjoint cover piece 43 is applied around the comer of the assembledstructure and attached by its flanges 44 and 45, with their keyholeslots to the corner plate studs 24.

With the full wall attached to the building structure 15 in this mannerby pendulum-like connections or members 22, the assembly can expand andcontract relative to the building structure 15 and by means of therolled resilient joined ends 27 of the respective wall sheet pieces, thepieces 19 can expand and contract relative to each other. lt should nowbe seen that buckling or distortion of the wall assembly upon a wall,roof or frame structure due to expansion and contraction of the parts ofthe assembly should be substantially eliminated.

Referring now particularly to FIGS. 7 to 1 1, there is showna'modification in which the lateral expansion and vertical contractionof the cover sheet pieces 19 can be accommodated with the pendulummembers 22 but through the attaching slots being transversely widened attheir closed upper ends toallow movement over the stud bolts on thevertical supports to which th pieces 19 are attached. The shifting ofthe assembly parts resulting from expansion and contraction is effectedby transverse enlargement of the upper ends of the bottom and upperslots 26 and 33 of the cover sheet piece 19 as indicated respectively at26' in the bottom slot 26 and at 33' of the upper slot 33. Verticalsupports 16 are provided with the stud bolts 24 that may be adjusted inthe vertical support 16 to be suitable for receiving directly the wallsheet pieces 19 and the rolled joint cover members 36 by their flangeswill be tightly retained by the stud bolts 24. 1

All parts will be assembled in the same manner as above described inconnection with the first form of the invention. By the transverseelongation of theupper ends of the slots 26 and 33 at 26' and 33'respectively, the entire wall cover assembly can by expansion andcontraction be laterally accommodated as well as vertically upon thewall 15. There has been mentioned above, the manner in which the rolledjoint cover members 36 can be assembled one on top of the other and inFIG. 8, this is clearly seen and can be applied to this second form ofthe invention. The cover member 36 at its upper end is inwardly struckto provide a narrowed upper end to accommodate the unstruck lower end ofthe member 33 so that the ends of two joint cover members 36 willoverlap one another and provide thereby for a flush watertightconnection between the cover members 36 when joining of the joint covermembers 36 has been effected at the same elevations that the wall coverpieces are joined and the inwardly struck portions 36 of the members 36will include flanges with the keyhole slots as best seen in FIG. 7,which keyhole slots will overlie the bottom keyhole slots in the flangesof the upper joint cover members 36 and the inwardly struck end of thelower member 36 will provide for a shoulder 36" on which the lower endbe applied first to wall supports 16 and that the other layers will bebuilt on each lower layer of wall pieces until the full height of thebuilding structure has been covered. Thereafter, the rolled joint covermembers 36 and the more rolled corner joint cover members 43 will bemounted thereover and to the same studs so that they expand andcontract. A complete finished wall assembly will have thus been providedupon the old wall structure 15, and will have improved the appearancethereof.

It should be apparent now that such a wall cover assembly can be put tomany uses and applied to many different wall and frame structures, andby the way that it is provided with the vertical supports, it can bereadily attached to any type of wall surface, roof structure and evenupon bridges or open frame structure that needs to be enclosed, bysimply adapting the vertical supports for attachment to these structuresprior to the assembly of the wall sheet cover pieces and the joint coverpieces onto the structure.

Where long wall sheet cover pieces are used there may be provision madefor the support of the cover piece intermediate their length uponvertical supports and yet allow for expansion and contraction of thecover pieces by providing vertically spaced keyhole slots 51 in thevertical supports, FIG. 11 similar in shape to the slots 33 provided inthe cover pieces 36 as shown in FIG. 7 and provides stud boltprojections from the rear face of the wall cover pieces intermediatetheir length that will be extended into the keyhole slots 51 in thevertical supports at spaced locations along the cover piece. The coverpieces will thus be supported intermediate their length as well as atrolled ends.

What is claimed is:

1. A wall cover assembly adapted for attachment to wall or framestructures comprising vertical support members adapted to be attached tothe wall surface or frame structure at laterally spaced locationsthereupon, said vertical support member having stud bolt means at spacedlocations thereon and extending outwardly from the front surfacethereof, wall sheet cover pieces having rolled side ends that are placedin joint connection with one another, overlying the vertical supports,said rolled ends being resilient and interfitted with one another attheir upper and lower edges and the sheet pieces overlapping oneanother, said cover sheet pieces having vertically spaced openings forreceiving the stud bolts upon the vertical supports and assemble onelayer above the other upon the stud bolts to thereby connect the sheetcover pieces to the vertical supports said stud bolt connection meanspermitting expansion and contraction of the assembled cover sheetslaterally and vertically relative to the vertical supports and to thewall surfaces to which the vertical supports are connected.

2. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 1 and rolled joint covermembers overlying the rolled ends of the wall sheet cover pieces andvertically spaced openings secured in common with the the wall coverpieces to the stud bolt means on the vertical supports.

3. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 2 and said verticalsupports including an angle support adapted to be united with a cornerof the'wall structure and the stud bolt means extending therefrom at anangle to one another, said rolled ends of said wall sheet comer verticalsupport in common with the wall sheet pieces and upon the stud boltmeans.

4. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 2 and said common stud boltmeans for the securement of the wall sheet pieces and the joint covermembers to the vertical supports including further stud boltspendulum-like members at the upper ends detachably secured and pivotallyconnected to the further stud bolts upon the vertical supports and-saidpendulum-like members having headed studs on their lower ends, saidcover sheet pieces and joint cover members openings being of key holeshape to receive the headed studs, said headed studs being of suchlength as to receive tightly, the three thicknesses of the cover sheetpieces and joint cover members.

5. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 1 and said wall coverpieces vertically spaced openings having widened upper ends receivingsaid stud bolts means whereby to permit lateral shifting of the assemblyon the vertical supports.

6. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 1 and said stud bolt meansincluding pendulum-like members pivotally connected at their upper endsto the front surface of the vertical supports and having outwardlyextending headed stud bolts on their lower ends, said 7 cover sheetpiece openings being of key hole shape to receive the headed stud bolts.

7. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 1 and the upper edge ofeach sheet piece being depressed and providing a horizontally extendingshoulder upon which the lower edge higher sheet piece is rested, theopenings in the lower edge of the sheet pieces being slotted upwardlyfrom the edge to accommodate the stud bolt means when assembling thehigher sheet piece upon the shoulder of the lower one, the upperportions of the rolled ends being enlarged to telescopically freelyaccommodate the lower portion of the rolled end.

1. A wall cover assembly adapted for attachment to wall or framestructures comprising vertical support members adapted to be attached tothe wall surface or frame structure at laterally spaced locationsthereupon, said vertical support member having stud bolt means at spacedlocations thereon and extending outwardly from the front surfacethereof, wall sheet cover pieces having rolled side ends that are placedin joint connection with one another, overlying the vertical supports,said rolled ends being resilient and interfitted with one another attheir upper and lower edges and the sheet pieces overlapping oneanother, said cover sheet pieces having vertically spaced openings forreceiving the stud bolts upon the vertical supports and assemble onelayer above the other upon the stud bolts to thereby connect the sheetcover pieces to the vertical supports said stud bolt connection meanspermitting expansion and contraction of the assembled cover sheetslaterally and vertically relative to the vertical supports and to thewall surfaces to which the vertical supports are connected.
 2. A wallcover assembly as defined in claim 1 and rolled joint cover membersoverlying the rolled ends of the wall sheet cover pieces and verticallyspaced openings secured in common with the the wall cover pieces to thestud bolt means on the vertical supports.
 3. A wall cover assembly asdefined in claim 2 and said vertical supports including an angle supportadapted to be united with a corner of the wall structure and the studbolt means extending therefrom at an angle to one another, said rolledends of said wall sheet pieces abutting one another at the corner andmore fully rolled corner covers being attachable to the corner verticalsupport in common with the wall sheet pieces and upon the stud boltmeans.
 4. A wall cover assembly as defined in claim 2 and said commonstud bolt means for the securement of the wall sheet pieces and thejoint cover members to the vertical supports including further studbolts pendulum-like members at the upper ends detachably secured andpivotally connected to the further stud bolts upon the vertical supportsand said pendulum-like members having headed studs on their lower ends,said cover sheet pieces and joint cover members openings being of keyhole shape to receive the headed studs, said headed studs being of suchlength as to receive tightly, the three thicknesses of the cover sheetpieces and joint cover members.
 5. A wall cover assembly as defined inclaim 1 and said wall cover pieces vertically spaced openings havingwidened upper ends receiving said stud bolts means whereby to permitlateral shifting of the assembly on the vertical supports.
 6. A wallcover assembly as defined in claim 1 and said stud bolt means includingpendulum-like members pivotally connected at their upper ends to thefront surface of the vertical supports and having outwardly extendingheaded stud bolts on their lower ends, said cover sheet piece openingsbeing of key hole shape to receive the headed stud bolts.
 7. A wallcover assembly as defined in claim 1 and the upper edge of each sheetpiece being depressed and providing a horizontally extending shoulderupon which the lower edge higher sheet pIece is rested, the openings inthe lower edge of the sheet pieces being slotted upwardly from the edgeto accommodate the stud bolt means when assembling the higher sheetpiece upon the shoulder of the lower one, the upper portions of therolled ends being enlarged to telescopically freely accommodate thelower portion of the rolled end.